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| B-0144774 | biography | Alfred Nobel | 1833-1896 | – |
| B-0008117 | biography | Nadine Gordimer | 1923-2014 | ✓ |
| B-0144659 | biography | John Maxwell Coetzee | 1940 | – |
| B-0008682 | biography | Es’kia Mphahlele | 1919-2008 | ✓ |
| B-0120967 | biography | Wangari Maathai | 1940-2011 | ✓ |
| B-0008221 | biography | Elsa Joubert | 1922 | ✓ |
| B-0125655 | biography | Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld | 1905 | – |
| B-0144660 | biography | Alan McLeod Cormack | 1924-1998 | ✓ |
| B-0098414 | biography | Chris van Wyk | 1957-2014 | ✓ |
| B-0097085 | biography | Phaswane Mpe | 1970-2004 | – |
| B-0122581 | biography | Nokukhanya Luthuli | 1904-1996 | – |
| B-0099280 | biography | Mandla Langa | 1950 | ✓ |
| B-0008279 | biography | Antjie Krog | 1952 | – |
| B-0150439 | biography | Achmat Dangor | 1948-2020 | ✓ |
| B-0009203 | biography | Benedict Wallet Vilakazi | 1906-1947 | ✓ |
| B-0141692 | biography | Peter Rudolf Gisela Horn | 1934-2019 | ✓ |
| B-0151628 | biography | Gladys Thomas | 1935-2022 | ✓ |
| B-0122038 | biography | Diane Case | 1955 | – |
| B-0008533 | biography | Zanemvula Kizito Mda | 1948 | ✓ |
| B-0149526 | biography | Abraham H. de Vries | 1937 | ✓ |
| B-0098835 | biography | Oswald Mbuyiseni Mtshali | 1940 | ✓ |
| B-0122542 | biography | Lefifi Tladi | 1949 | ✓ |
| B-0094715 | biography | Njabulo Simakahle Ndebele | 1948 | ✓ |
| B-0124457 | biography | Ronnie Govender (Sathiseelan Gurulingam Govender) | 1934-2021 | – |
| B-0096558 | biography | Willie Esterhuyse | 1936 | – |
| B-0096423 | biography | Jonathan Shapiro | 1958 | ✓ |
| B-0007985 | biography | Frederik Willem de Klerk | 1936-2021 | ✓ |
| B-0009113 | biography | Helen Suzman | 1917-2009 | ✓ |
| B-0008062 | biography | Dumile Feni | 1942-1991 | – |
| B-0007885 | biography | Sydney Brenner | 1927 | – |
BiographyAlfred Nobel
… Alfred Nobel …
BiographyNadine Gordimer
… life. Gordimer has been awarded 10 honorary doctorates in literature from various universities around the world. She … novel, The Conservationist, was joint…
BiographyJohn Maxwell Coetzee
… sensitively: "an uncommon occurrence in South African literature which, as part of the legacy of a divided society, … 1984. Coetzee is the only author ever…
BiographyEs’kia Mphahlele
… innumerable single essays, addresses, awards and a Nobel Prize nomination for literature and what emerges is to many the Dean of African …
BiographyWangari Maathai
… recognition for her work, in 2004 she received the Sophie Prize; Petra Kelly Prize for Environment; the Conservation … during the 1980s. [xxxi] Along with…
BiographyElsa Joubert
… contribution to South African, and especially Afrikaans, literature. She has been awarded several prestigious literary … and internationally. She is the…
BiographyDag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld
… University where he earned his degree in linguistics, literature, and history in 1925..Hammarskjöld studied an … state of Katanga, Moïse-Kapenda Tshombe. End…
BiographyAlan McLeod Cormack
… His findings drew very little response until his fellow Nobel Laureate, Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield, and his … In 1979 Cormack and Housfield were awarded the…
BiographyChris van Wyk
… Act. The eldest of six children, he was fascinated by literature from a very young age. van Wyk rose to fame in the … and for which van Wyk received the…
BiographyPhaswane Mpe
… the age of 19, he left for Johannesburg to study African Literature at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits). Not … The novel, his debut work, won the…
BiographyNokukhanya Luthuli
… [28] On 10 December 1961, Albert was awarded the 1960 Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo. Because the world’s attention was focussed on … in their community prior to…
BiographyMandla Langa
… introductions for many books, including South Africa’s Nobel Laureates: Peace, Literature and Science (2004), Moving in Time: Images of Life … In 2009, he…
BiographyAntjie Krog
… their past and future. Krog was awarded the Eugene Marais prize for the most promising young writer in 1973, she also got the Dutch/Flemish prize and the…
BiographyAchmat Dangor
… Africa. He also taught creative writing and South Afrcian literature at New York State University, New York, United … Fruit (2003) Strange Pilgrimages …
BiographyBenedict Wallet Vilakazi
… the BA degree of the University of South Africa and was a prize winner of the International Institute of African … African in the Union to receive the degree…
BiographyPeter Rudolf Gisela Horn
… in 1994. In 2000 he was awarded the Charles Herman Bosman Prize for My voice is under control now. Professor Horn was … Control now) 2000 he was awarded the…
BiographyGladys Thomas
… Flats, Cape Town. Three of the one-act plays won first prize in “The World” newspaper literary competition, just … a full-length play titled “Avalon Court”…
BiographyDiane Case
… [v] Certainly, Diane Case’s contribution to South African literature has been outstanding. Described as a ‘master … awards for writing, including the Percy…
BiographyZanemvula Kizito Mda
… him to a post at Mabathoana High School, Maseru teaching Literature in English, and then from 1972 to 1979 to various … English Academy of Southern Africa:…
BiographyAbraham H. de Vries
… by Michael Chapman Awards Reina Prinsen Geerligs Prize (1962) – For his first three books Eugène Marais Prize (1967) – Vliegoog Perskor Prize (1974) –…
BiographyOswald Mbuyiseni Mtshali
… Abrahams’ Renoster press and won the Olive Schreiner Prize in 1974. The book’s success gained Mtshali recognition, … Zulu folk songs and translating classic…
BiographyLefifi Tladi
… served as a mentor and introduced Tladi to African literature. In 1970*, Tladi and his colleagues in the arts … Rule in Black South Africa, and the 1986 Wole…
BiographyNjabulo Simakahle Ndebele
… In 1975 he received a Master of Arts in English Literature from Cambridge University, where he was the first … In 1991 he became the Head of the Department…
BiographyRonnie Govender (Sathiseelan Gurulingam Govender)
… Academy of South Africa for his contribution to English literature. In 2006, Song of the Atman , which is partially … was also shortlisted for the 2007…
BiographyWillie Esterhuyse
… of numerous prizes and awards, including the Sunday Times prize for political literature (1981), the Stals Prize for Philosophy, awarded by the South African…
BiographyJonathan Shapiro
… In 2001 he became the first cartoonist to win a category prize in the CNN African Journalist of the Year Awards. In … Walter Sisulu University) made him an…
BiographyFrederik Willem de Klerk
… rule. In 1993, De Klerk and Mandela were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for their efforts at reform in South Africa. After the … F.W. de Klerk: The Nobel…
BiographyHelen Suzman
… Medallion of Heroism in 1980. She was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize twice. In 1993, she published her autobiography, In No …
BiographyDumile Feni
… from 1952 to 1967, and was the first African winner of the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts in waging a non-violent campaign …
BiographySydney Brenner
… H. Robert Horvitz and John E. Sulston were awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for their work on 'genetic … Scientist and recipient of the…